Blogging Toronto: Girl fight! Kinda.

Women fight each other with equally devious outcomes in two high profile Toronto films, Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married and Rod Lurie’s Nothing But the Truth. Here are my thoughts on both films.

erichkohn posted to Upcoming Releases on September 9, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Toronto Tidbits: It Might Get Loud.

“We’re going to have a chat, but it just so happens the instruments will be there as well, so who knows?”

—Jimmy Page en route to meet up with Jack White and The Edge during the opening moments of Davis Guggenheim’s It Might Get Loud, which exclusively focuses on three generations of rock guitarists. The film, which premiered tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival, without a doubt tops of the list of the greatest rock docs of the past ten years.

erichkohn posted to Upcoming Releases on September 6, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Happy-Go-Lucky Makes Me…Happy.

Mike Leigh’s new film, Happy-Go-Lucky, provides a much-needed reminder that the art of the screenplay is very far from dead. This relentlessly entertaining, quietly thoughtful and wholly believable dramedy not only contains a magnificently liberating performance by Sally Hawkins as the sort of carefree gal more interested in enjoying her life than getting swept up by it—but the movie itself offers a swift rebuke to all the trite notions of the “second sex” still plaguing Western culture after all these…I dunno…centuries?

Happy-Go-Lucky opens in New York this October. It’s possible that Leigh’s screenplay and Dawkin’s performance could win a lot of awards when the season hits, but who cares? It’s a lovely accomplishment.

erichkohn posted to Upcoming Releases on July 15, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)